I will call over this regular meeting of the public safety civil rights Emergency
Management Committee. Today is July fifteenth two thousand and fifteen I am Council
member of one yang chair of this committee with me today our council members were
Sammy Norden our Maisano and right in the Council President Johnson will be joining
us shortly we have. Ten items on our agenda today of those items eight or consent
items and to our discussion items and we will address the first AIDS consent items
so the first item is takes up the resolution or accepting a resolution of
a grand award of five hundred forty thousand dollars from female for two thousand
and fourteen regional assistance to firefighters Act grant that is shared grant
with the same Paul fire departments in this will be referred to ways and means
second item is authorizing an execution of
a contract with him PH A For Sergeant investigator to promote the integrity and
accountability in the house and twist program through investigation of alleged
criminal activity in suspected fraud by Section eight participants in the mounds of
one hundred eight thousand eight hundred twenty five dollars for
a period of one you're referring of ways and means as well third item is authorize
a contract. Or contract execution of two years with in county or district court
directing the police department to provide drug court with research and monitoring
services and serve as
a liaison between the police department in the Corps for forty three thousand
dollars per year for
a period of two years this will be referred to Ways and Means or that I'm is to
accept a resolution except by resolution
a grant of twenty five thousand dollars from the woman's foundation to be used to
host
a training related to investigative techniques related to trafficking crimes victim
identification and recovery in combat trafficking this will be referred to ways and
means if item is accepting the resolution of
a donation of fifteen thousand dollars from the target foundation to be used to
support
a community in Gauge men's and related project cost referred to ways and means six
item is exceptional by resolution
a donation of three hundred fifty thousand eight hundred fifty eight dollars from
the State Department of Commerce the support of the existing out of the prevention
program for two years referred to Ways and Means. Sometime authorizing in amendment
to the contract with the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine for
canine that Mary Cary. Increasing by ten thousand dollars and extending for the
period July first two thousand and fourteen through June thirtieth two thousand and
fifteen to be referred to Ways and Means and the eight item is accepting by
resolution J.G.
Jag award for funding to help in county for
a total of two hundred forty three thousand one hundred thirty dollars and this
will be referred to ways and means council members any questions on the consent
items say none all those in favor please say I I any oppose.
Item number nine is the impeding body camera update reports and this.
This one part would be to report back on
a city council action on June fifth two thousand and fifteen which directed the
office of grants and special projects in collaboration with the many apples police
department to develop
a list of any and all grant opportunities related to the purchase maintenance and
ongoing use of body cameras in addition staff shall consult with your jurisdictions
implementing body him. To identify and leverage all potential funding opportunities
which may be OK over the city of Minneapolis and this is
a report back to us on top of
a report about our body cam program that has happened for the past year or so so.
With that Deputy Chief Lamping Welcome thank you Mr Chairman thank you for the time
today. We're coming in sandwiched in between a couple of events we came to you
a few weeks ago and asked for permission to apply for
a Department of Justice grant for
a body cameras which was approved and is awaiting consideration out in D.C.
And we also have upcoming A report back to the audit committee by the city's
internal auditor on the body Cameron's So we want to take this opportunity to come
forward and just give
a brief update on where we are with the body cameras with those two events having
taken place
a couple things to note we have yet to begin contract negotiations with
a vendor for full deployment of the body cameras so I want to be very careful today
about giving any specifics that would jeopardize those negotiations or in essence
negotiate in public because we don't want to damage any kind of opportunity we have
in negotiations with those companies because as we told with the audit or with the
grant it's going to be
a. Costly endeavor for us to go through so we want to make sure we have every
advantage in opportunity we have with those with those companies but that being
said
a quick update on where we're at so back in November we. Were deployed thirty six
of these cameras across three of our precincts covering all shifts of varieties of
officers we created over seven thousand videos in the six months that we tested we
actually ended our testing in mid May when we came to the end of our local
storage and just
a quick recap the first four months we tested taser products which used
a cloud based storage system. We purposely then chose to use all mobile
storage system with
a view cameras and we learned that that system really ate up space quickly and
rather than spend more money on more storage we ended the test period in May after
we got all the information we needed on the performance of The View camera and knew
that we could give
a really good comparison between the two. You know through through
the testing we wanted to get feedback from our officers and our partners like the
prosecutors and we really did it that testing process gave us the data that we were
looking for the feedback we were looking for and it's really going to help us make
a selection and do it very. Very informed decision the officer feedback
was very positive we actually had officers when they were told to turn in their
cameras asked if they could keep them and keep using them for me that really told
us how effective the program was and I think gave me confidence that it's not going
to be
a difficult hill to get over and getting officers to utilize these cameras I was
very happy to hear that when officers were demanding to use these things. Most of
videos I watched were for the most part positive they were professional and quite
honestly they were some of the most Monday and video you've ever seen it showed
cops doing what they do every day interacting with people making traffic stops. But
we did have some really interesting videos we had an officer saving
a life performing C.P.R.
In one of these videos with an officer on his way to
a part time job in North Minneapolis ended up getting in a foot pursuit with
a suspect in
a double homicide and that person was just sentenced to fifty five years this week
pled guilty and it captures the officer where he found the gun that the guy threw
it was
a really intriguing piece of video I don't know if that's what cotton if that's
what caused the suspect the plead guilty but I'm going to hold out hope that that
video played
a part in it that the interaction between the officer and the suspect and
a phone another video where
a complaint was made against an officer that he violently pushed
a person the body cam video when I looked at it involve the officer putting his arm
I'm going No sir you can't walk in the street in gently guiding the person back up
to the sidewalk that complaint ended in literally two seconds as soon as that video
was over we knew that that complaint was not how it was written and that the
officer did everything right just three highlights I could go on and on about the
videos but those are the things we're seeing in the videos themselves it was
a really good pilot program we're happy with the results and excited about the
opportunity to go forward and going forward here's the timeline we're looking at
now to give you a quick update there like I said the grant is out in D.C.
Waiting consideration we are expected to hear in October I don't know if that means
up Kolb or first October thirty first we're taking
a realistic approach that it's probably going to be mid November. That's just the
way things go there's
a lot of agencies applying for these grants we've learned and we you know again it
could come October first that would be great if it did but we're going to be
realistic in think it's probably going to be later rather than sooner Meanwhile we
are going to begin to go she ations with her to vendors to. They have to be
generalized because we cannot get too specific in the number of cameras we're going
to buy the amount of things we're going to buy that sort of thing because we do not
want to supplant the grant and have the Department of Justice come back and go oh
you've taken too many steps forward on this you don't qualify anymore we want to be
very careful that we do not affect their ability to get this grant by over
negotiating but we want to be in
a position when that grant comes out that our negotiations are just about done and
that we can get things going as soon as possible after we get notification on the
grant one way or another. The So again we're
looking at November possibly the problem that we're going to see is your window
gets really short as
a council in November and December is probably the worst time of the year to come
to you and say here's what we're looking for we finalized everything because as you
know there's not
a whole opportunity in those two months we're going to do the best we can that when
that grant comes back we can get everything we need to in front of the council in
the necessary committees so that we can get these things rolled out. We'd like to
start March simply March first starting to deploy the cameras again kind of
dependent on other timelines and then going from there we're expecting about
a five to six month time period to get them completely rolled out to the to the
department it's going to take about four months for each precinct we have to set up
I keyed infrastructure in each precinct we have to be very deliberate how we train
you just don't throw five six hundred of these cameras out and go go get them you
have to be slow to liberate and training so that everybody knows what they're doing
and they have to provide aftercare we just again can't throw him out there and go
good luck we have to be around to make sure everybody knows what they're doing
another important piece that we are waiting on and that is our own the public
feedback and public comment we're going to be receiving from the police conduct
oversight committee they are currently the process of conducting three public
public listening sessions and their report is due back in September once we have
that report we'll be able to formulate or full policy that will be in place once
the body cameras go out we'll be looking to it unfortunately our contracts with the
two vendors and at the end of September we're going to be going to both vendors and
asking if they would be willing to extend those contracts so we do not have to go
back through a second R.F.P.
Process and I am assuming both both vendors have been very responsive to the entire
process I don't see
a problem there some of the issues that we see going forward that are going to have
to be dealt with the first one is data practice issues that by far and away seems
to be the biggest issue out there what do we do with all this video once we have it
mean just in the six months with thirty six officers we collect it seven thousand
videos once we have all you know five to six hundred officers of cameras we
anticipate at least a thousand videos
a day we're going to collect. Right now the legislature has been silent on what
they are going to do as far as classification they gave some indication with the
bills that were put forward but they did not get brought to the floor for
a vote or anything like that so we're kind of left in the lurch there knowing what
the ruling is going to be on what's public what's private what we can get about
what we can we don't have to. That's going to be the big issue with these things.
When we get requests them give us all your body camera video which we have it is
a time consuming and it is
a labor intensive process so we're waiting to hear back more on that we'll continue
to deal with that obviously privacy concerns are something that's that's out there
that will be part of our policy and we're going to receive public comments on that
and then changing technology it's interesting all the companies as soon as one
changes something it's like anything else they've all kind of caught up with each
other and the next one does it better it's like buying a computer you buy
a computer today and there's another better one out there tomorrow so we're also
trying to make sure we leverage and are negotiations to get the best most current
technology when it comes out and then if I could just quickly address
with the assistance of counsel member palm Sano to make sure I've got it all and
you know everything accurate. The staff directive we met with our
federal consultants. Along with I.G.R.
To discuss the funding available in what we learned was there is not
a lot out there the only funding that they knew of was the grant that we were
applying for. Its minor standing based on what they said that that is it any other
federal money is tied up in other programs other grants and as far as working with
other agencies to seek funding we also learned that it's
a very competitive process and we essentially are competing with the likes of St
Paul along with all of their cities our size everybody's getting on board at the
same time so it's
a very competitive and we're getting together with another agency is not going to
be something that we're going to be able to do with any effectiveness so with that
Mr Chair and like to turn it over to any questions that I might be able to answer.
For the committee thank you do sing clamping. Council President Johnson. Thank
you Mr Chairman keep going we did we get to use the promise them to us that nation
in this application I cannot answer for certain on that but I know what
that something that I G.R.
And I believe the mayor's office we're looking into with the Department of Justice
there was nothing up front that said that says this boxer check this box we're
going to give you
a five extra points so I do hope though that our I guess inquiries and that
some attention out in D.C.
And kind of checked
a couple boxes in people's minds there thank you notes member almost on
a. Thank you Mr Chair Thank you Chief Graham pay for your presentation I too was
surprised and just wanted to the knowledge that. When President Obama had said
there'd be seventy to seventy five million dollars worth of funding available for
these programs that I was surprised and I think you were surprised to find out from
our federal partners that only seventeen million have been available so far
so that does put us in a little bit of
a less the shinning going after things we also were surprised to find out that
a lot of costs in these kinds of programs are not eligible for example data
practices stuff is not eligible and that's why I'm I'm pleased that you've been
engaging in the consul commit really thinking through this from that we're really
looking to lead on policy here as we go in and figure out what that policy might be
to help the state come up with their policy in the future because it is critical to
figure that out especially here where everything is presumed open if I'm not
mistaken where Whereas in Washington D.C.
For example and in those body camera programs all that data is considered closed at
the initial piece So
a question that I have as we went through this pilot and I'm not sure why
I'm not clear about this before but just so the everybody's clear is the eventual
idea that police body worn cameras will be on anytime that officer is
on duty up whether it be their off duty work because the city's indemnifying them
as are police officers or on the regular ships is or is there any
protocol that's been suggested or affirmed of how we will be running these cameras
. Absolutely Mr Chair council member. Saw speak to just in general
first we are going to have in in the vast majority of departments have criteria
when the cameras either shall go on or should go on it's been found to be
economically and practically not feasible to turn him on at the beginning of the
shift and just let him run number one the data storage costs and the data practices
nightmare that would exist from that would make that just just
a nonstarter so the next most important thing we can do in this is where we're
looking for public feedback we're looking at policies from other departments to
find best practices when do our officers have to turn him on when should they turn
him on and when should they turn him off or when do they have to turn them off and
that's where we want to be the leader in you and I talked about that we want our
policy to be the one that people look at and all of that's what we want to do walk
away there's a lot of guidance out there from places like the D.O.J.
Like the Police Executive Research Forum perp who've put out excellent guides on
that So absolutely there will be times when officers. Turn those things on and
off and that's what we're working on for
a pilot project everything said you should turn them on I can almost guarantee you
that there will be Shalvey in there where for instance
a traffic stop yet you have to turn it on at that point and we purposely did that
for the pilot project to allow us to gather the most data but we're waiting to get
all the public feedback from the P C O C. In that regard and then I'm sorry I
blanked on the second part of your like it was about whether or not. Officer
is going to like you had mentioned before part time jobs but also read with the
protocol be regardless of when or where they're working right so I would just touch
on that we changed about midway through once we knew officers were. Comfortable
using these cameras we allowed them to then use their cameras at part time jobs for
the pilot this is something we're going to have to discuss with the police officers
Federation because it is going to deal with officers having to go to their precinct
to pick up their cameras to get them for their part time jobs so in an ideal world
yes we would want our officers wearing these cameras at their part time jobs but we
have to make sure we. Do the kind of the procedural part correctly on to figure out
how that best is going to be put into place when we're telling officers you have to
go pick this camera up so that's this question we're going to have Absolutely we
thought about it and this is a good that's
a good example that we have here because we can point to
a success story of why it's important that we would want officers to have these
cameras on at the park. Thank you. Members and other questions
these England be just
a couple of quick questions the three six officers that. Were the body cameras in
work with lot of cameras did you all do
a survey of all of them to see what their general sentiments were with regards to
the usage of the body amorous Yes We reached out to all of them we received
feedback from most of them not everybody gave us I mean we did get feedback of you
know What camera did you like best and the answer was none of them. But for the
most part we did get to get that feedback from them and what did you like
specifically about the cameras What didn't you and those are things that are going
to go into our negotiations in our final selection and we said all along to the
officers and their import by far and always the most important aspect of what we're
going to use to make
a selection of the best camera for them and so it to get that feedback from them
and we also did various sessions along the line we sat down with the officers and
the vendors to work on different solutions like different ways that where the
camera's different mounting aspect so absolutely we were really pleased that they
were able to give us that feedback throughout the entire course of the. Project and
of of the police officers from the thirty six who were most resistant to having.
Body cams you know in the departments and did they change their minds not through
words. What sense did you get from. I wouldn't Mr Chair I wouldn't say that
those officers necessarily change their mind I think where I saw the biggest change
the officers that came in and said Can I keep my camera are the ones who we've seen
in the Navy certain situations like an internal affairs or and potentially who may
have been a part of a lawsuit not necessarily named in
a lawsuit what is it's those officers who really impressed me that they said that I
want to keep this camera and that spoke volumes to me that the you know those are
the ones that came forward and said This is
a good thing in terms of people's demeanor as were the officers demeanor is I hear
that people are much nicer when they're on camera is that accurate I haven't seen
anything yet where an officer somebody was absolutely belligerent and the officer
said hey I'm recording and they change their behavior I saw
a lot of good behavior on both sides right from the get go and I don't know if the
people knew they were being recorded there was
a lot of publicity out there to say we were doing this if you know what you're
looking for it was very obvious when an officer was wearing
a camera on the side of their head or had this black box. Again it just made for
a lot of Monday in videos when there was
a pleasant conversation and we couldn't ask for more that point so and again did it
change officers behavior it may of it may not of I don't know I I'm just
probably in that what we saw on the video was very representative of what we would
expect from our officers OK thank you any other questions All right thank you thank
you. So for
a number nine I will move to receive an updated report on body cam program you need
this question. All right seeing on all those in favor police say adding I need
clothes OK that carries right the tenth item is. Receiving
a right rip and filing
a report that action research team on sex offender concentration report and going
to do a little. Background information for our council members here. This was
a resolution that was passed sometime in March of two thousand and thirteen and you
know let me let me read
a little bit from the from the resolution just. Folks information says that
somewhere as on January first two thousand and thirteen there were two thousand
five hundred twenty two registered sex offenders that live work or go to school in
Minneapolis whereas the concentration of registered sex offenders occurs in areas
of the city populated mainly by non-majority people who are areas in which many of
the residents live at were below the poverty line and where as registered sex
offenders are concentrated in the Minneapolis neighborhoods of Camden near north
north Lou Phillips in power one and. From the resolution one of
the directors was to the city council directed staff in the opposite the
City it turning the regulatory Services Department the commute planning an economic
development department the interim governmental relations office the health and
families or departments in the Minneapolis Police Department and anyone else. To
work together and with their partners in the county state and federal governments
that dress the problem of concentration of predatory offenders in Minneapolis and
this was you know this was a saturation or
a resolution that came about twenty eight months ago and here we are of with
a report and so with that being said and director corporal is going. Mr cheering
committee members thank you for your time this afternoon as Council received we are
here this afternoon to present the results of action research. And
request that the city council receive in fall the action research team to port on
the concentration of sex offenders as
a committee chair at Yang mention the two twenty thirteen resolution was
a way for the city of Minneapolis to acknowledge that neighborhoods that already
run negatively impacted by social economic inequities were also having these
negative experiences compound it by the over population of registered sex offenders
and they passed the resolution that customer Yang read an excerpt from that
basically we would work together with county state and federal governments to
address the problem of concentration of predatory offenders in Minneapolis so an
action research team was created around the early fall of two thousand and thirteen
and the task of their research team was really to answer for basic questions if
their concentration where is it happening why is it happening and if they are
anything to be done about it and their research team undertook to answer these
questions to get us away from merely express an opinion and speculation as to
really trying to cook information together that would give us some valid answers to
these questions. There are several members of the action research team who are and
the room today and several who indicated that they would be here and they might
comment at some point during the presentation but Sergeant Darren allow it from the
Minneapolis Police Department I saw Mark Levin from the Minnesota Department of
Corrections day and K.
Is here or was here from our if you can and Nancy Dunlap retired lieutenant from
the mini up of Police Department I see Nancy in the track Melissa left from our
communications and government relations office indicated that she would be here
Mary Mowen had only I didn't want to communicate I know I got an e-mail from her
that he was going to try to be here and is from him in County Community Corrections
and Rehabilitation Avenue Rulon from the Council on Crime and justice and Susan
Segal our city attorney and I don't know he's planning on being here in person
today or not but that's just
a few of the names of the people who stayed actively engaged in the research work
during the course of the project so what is action research
so this is
a different kind of research the most people are familiar with because you're
probably most familiar with scientific research where you're using control groups
and in tunes that sampling and testing you're trying to reach conclusions that are
significantly of statistically significant but actual research is
a little bit different from that and it's actually work that is conducted by
a group of practitioners concentrated around
a focus area for this our focus area was concentration of registered sex offender
in Minneapolis and Hennepin County and the group the action research team seeks to
understand and analyze policies practices and trends with the expectation that that
work through that work is going to improve outcomes. So I am not doing the
presentation they are presenter in committee this afternoon as Dr Lauren Martin who
is the director of research of the Urban Research our region engagement center or
your rock that's located in North Minneapolis is
a University of Minnesota institution there were off
a million with Dr Martin with nationally recognized for her groundbreaking breaking
research in the area of sex trading and sex trafficking prevention she is
recognized as an expert on community engaged research methods and oversees you're
right scholarly research projects in Grant operations Dr Martin is
a researcher with the university's Children Youth and Family consortium and the
Center for early education and development and professor at the Humphrey School of
Public Affairs she received her doctoral degree in anthropology and historical
studies from the New School for Social Research in New York she's the author of
numerous community and scholarly publications and the principal investigator on
several research projects including mapping the market for juvenile sex trafficking
in Minneapolis the north side she meant zone Community Survey and
a validation study of the north side of family Cademy So while Dr Martin makes her
way to the lectern I'd also like to thank her colleagues there Axtell who was
really involved in the research work there is also at your rock and then our of our
faith Jackson that I think I introduced once before that bape was an urban scholar
and
a third year lost during that research project she was really helpful in putting
a lot of this work together and. The fact.
I wasn't expecting that introduction. Thank you for being here I just let you know
you have
a present so. OK Sure thank you Will somebody tell me when I can't see the clock is
there someone I should be I love you Mark about five minutes or so I'm sure
hopefully we won't go that long my intention is really to give you some highlights
and if you have questions comments members of the team are here hopefully they can
step forward on some of the technical questions I'm really pleased to be here to
share some of the results of the work that we've been doing over the last couple of
years. So what I'm going to do is just run through
a presentation. The information we want to share we wanted to describe action
research which actually director core Korbel did an excellent job so I'll probably
skip that portion of the presentation and we want to talk
a little bit about who made up our team and why we selected the people that we did
. Or people self selected to join the team
a little more on the research questions but again director core will cover that so
we'll move quickly I'm going to spend
a little bit of time on the research process because I think it's important that
you understand how the information came together in the way that it did. Try to
move through those procedural parts
a little bit quickly so we can get to the results which is probably what you're
most interested in and so we'll spend
a little bit of time with highlights of what we found there will be
a full report which will be much longer we're still working on those final details
with the recommendations but when the full report is completed we'll obviously make
that available widely and I will talk
a little bit about next steps. So I want to reiterate that the role that you wrote
played in this project was. As
a facilitator so the action research team itself were the content experts on the
people who really know this object what you rock did we provided facilitation to
help pull the group together to help the group come to consensus about the
questions we wanted to ask them what data we wanted to pull together and then the
team really from their position of being experts brought in the data and the
knowledge that came together to create the report
so in any action research team the goal is to hold together people from.
All sides of an issue so oftentimes it's and it's taken me in
a contentious issue like sex offender concentration it'll be people who are
normally in
a room together having conversations and that's part of the process bring people
together across different silos and have these conversations really hash it out
come to consensus so we we want to have obviously representatives from corrections
law enforcement we want to have service providers who are working with offenders as
they are coming into the community state in the elected officials as well as policy
makers and then community members because obviously the community members are the
ones that are potentially impacted by the issue in their neighborhoods
I'm not going to read this list of who all participated it's in your note just to
give you a sense of who was coming to the meetings on
a fairly regular basis and we did meet every other month starting in September.
Again I'm not going to read this slide to you we want to provide you some
definitions. One thing that I want to note early on the team spent several meetings
discussing OK What is the parameter of what we're looking at here and we actually
redefined our charge so instead of focusing on sex offenders we are focusing on
predatory offenders who are required to register this is
a technical term that matches the legislation
a little bit better and it made it easier to do data polls across the state sex
offender was sort of a looser term so we wanted to get
a little more precise in that that took so meetings to kind of come together on
a consensus and I do want to just read. What our charge was so you're really clear
in our analysis sex offender includes all persons who are required to register as
a predatory offender at all those ignitions and those who register but do not have
a designation as you can imagine it took us several meetings to really hone in on
and agree on what our definition would be Oh one other thing I want to note on this
slide. We had a we also had
a lot of conversation about what does concentration mean is it clustering what
constitutes
a concentration we did look to the research literature on this question and I have
to say it was pretty all over the place so for us we're really just looking at
areas that have more predatory offenders than other areas so we have kind of
a looser definition of concentration. So for our research questions I think
Director Korbel did a great job of going over them but again this was
a consensus the group came to about what our questions would be first we want to
look at what is the community impact of predatory offender concentration What is
the current picture of predatory offenders reentry in Minneapolis and Hennepin
County sort of where are they
a question and then what are the policies and procedures surrounding predatory
offender release and supervision so that kind of gets to the how how is that
predatory offenders ended up residing where they where they live.
Another hallmarks of actual research is you try to use as many different research
methods of seem to fit the question or issue that you're trying to solve so we we
pulled together
a lot of different methods and again I'm not going to go over all this in detail
but just know that we pulled together data from the agencies that were involved we
interviewed people. We looked at the Minnesota statutes and regulations and
policies and then we did
a brief survey of predatory offenders and I'll share some of those
and here's our timeline I think it's important to see sort of what we were
projecting and then kind of where we are so as was already stated we we began in
earnest in fall two thousand and thirteen we spent quite a bit of time defining as
a group our parameters our intention was to secure funding in the end we decided to
do the work. More as
a volunteer group so all of us came there and we didn't have
a kid funding for the group but each entity that came to the table kind of put put
something on the table for the team to work. I think the biggest obstacle in
our project timeline so we are we we are not finishing when we hope we would we
determined and about January of sorry June twenty fourteen that we didn't want to
add in a fender survey so that took quite
a bit of time to pull together and implement which changed our timeline so you can
see were anticipating that the project will wrap up with our final report in August
twenty fifteen typo on your slot there twenty fifteen on the left
OK. One of the things that we try
to do is bring people to the table to to do work on this project that we pulled
together capstone project from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs and really
there being goal was to scour the literature that was not something that our team
was in a good position to do. So just
a couple of highlights from the literature. Really what the national literature is
saying on this issue housing is the primary driver of Concentra predatory offender
clustering and concentration and by that we mean lack of affordable housing and
lack of housing that will landlords who will rent to predatory lenders.
They also looked at the literature on re citizen rates for predatory offenders
there's
a lot of research out there you know and it's not perfect most most of the research
literature focuses on recidivism with the definition of reconviction not
necessarily really a fence you know there's
a difference between what police are seeing with the rest rates and what ends up
going through the whole system and going through the conviction so most of the data
on recidivism looks at reconviction And actually what what the research literature
is suggesting is that the fear of research
a visit for reconviction is higher than the actual reset of his rates. I'm not
trying to diminish what the resort of ism rate is because obviously even if it's
a low resort it isn't right these are particularly heinous crimes so you know we
don't want to discount but that's what the research literature saying the other
thing that. National literature focused on is residency restrictions so.
Municipalities that put into place. Constraints around where sex offenders are
predatory offenders could live actually has
a side effect of creating clustering in other locations. And then there is some
literature that suggests that clustering or concentration of predatory offenders
does impact housing values in that if if there are even one or two
predatory offenders in the vicinity values will drop so that's what the national
kind of research literature. In our Another thing that our
capstone students did was they interviewed members of our team and then also people
in Minneapolis and again those interviews just kind of. Focused on.
Lack of affordable housing in transitional housing. Too few landlords So again
echoing that national literature and they also looked at the location services and
offender support systems as having an impact on where predatory offenders are
living. OK so getting to. A little bit of data.
Really documenting the concentration so we spent
a significant amount of time trying to determine where is the best data for us to
pull in order to really document where sex offenders are sorry where predatory
offenders are living in the end we decided to go with data from the Minnesota
Department of Corrections. Solid data test data for the states so we could we can
zoom in from the state and kind of come down and I'll do that for you in
a second with a series of maps. Are big finding we confirmed there is
a significant concentration of predatory offenders in the zip codes that were
identified in your city council resolution. The other thing that we looked at if
you look at. Predatory offenders and where they're living in Hennepin County
they're the Hennepin County those that are in place that are in Hennepin County are
really concentrated so when we get to the maps you'll see that I'm on
a zip through them relatively quickly because there's
a lot of detail on the maps while we have circles on there to point your eye so
this first couple of maps are looking at residents of predatory offenders
all pro-choice centers and then on the right side are level three predatory
offenders sex. So you can see this is per capita by county.
So when you zero in on the little circles around Hennepin County when you look at
the county on all registered predatory offenders you can see
kind of
a county actually is not looking. Overly concentrated compared to other counties
but we have to think about. Some of the counties are rural some of the counties
have far fewer people but when we zoom in so this is just Hennepin County the
darker areas are. Locations that have more predatory offenders it's really standing
out even in this zoom out you can see across and county the predatory offenders are
really in
a couple areas I'm going to zoom in even more you can really see where they are in
Minneapolis. So that the zip codes are five five four zero four five five four zero
five but by four one one by five four one two and five five four three zero.
Yeah sorry I just couldn't contain myself still curious about if we collected data
about where these individuals lived with my understanding is most of them lived
within Hennepin County when they got into the system to where they lived.
Before they got into the system we do not. Currently because that So we want to run
around on this with our team that data is in individual case files we would really
it would require significant funding and time for somebody to go in and sort of
almost hand count that information it's not available in
a database format. So I think that we did have
a concern that there were people living all over the state who ended up moving into
the Hennepin County into Minneapolis I think your research says that's not
necessarily the case it appears that it's people who are living in Hennepin County
but so we don't know if they're evenly dispersed throughout the communities in the
county or where they're actually you know my assumption is going to be they were
probably more evenly dispersed than then. So well in that no you have so in
a couple slots I'm actually going to speak exactly to that question in fact the
next slide. So what this slide there's
a lot information on there so I'm not going to go over everything on there but took
two points that I really want to point out first is the total number of predatory
offenders in the concentrated areas of interest that we were looking at is seven
hundred ninety and rituals. That's quite
a few it turned out to be point seven one percent of the population of those areas
that's pretty significant I mean it's pretty high and then I also want to draw your
attention to. So we did
a little sub study and by we I mean the Minnesota Department of Corrections did
a little examination to get to exactly the question that you're raising around are
these individuals from within the county or from outside the county so they did
a sub study of the level three predatory offenders again is very labor intensive so
they wanted to do
a snapshot and they found that the majority of the individuals had Hennepin County
governing offenses. Where in Hennepin County I'm not sure if we know that.
So I think it would require additional study. And a lot of and
a lot of labor but it doesn't so the question are we getting predatory offenders
from elsewhere in the state and. It our research is indicating that no most of the
predatory offenders who are in the county are have their original offense from
within Hennepin County now how they end up in the zip codes that's another another
story OK so I understand what is my time. You've gotten OK
so getting in
a little bit on our second question about Earth or I'm sorry third question about
understanding the release and supervision policies. I don't know how familiar you
all are with the policies and procedures I will say they're.
Complex and there's a there's a lot going on there so I'm going to zero in on
a few things if you have specific questions but you have some content experts here
who can answer those questions. The first thing to note is so in terms of
understanding the release process is there's relief there's three levels of risk
that get assigned to predatory offenders who have been in prison or
a correctional facility and those are level one which is people who are deemed to
have
a lowest public risk level Tuesday moderate public risk and level three of the highest
public risk in these levels correspond to the degree of supervision that will be
assigned to that person upon release all of these decisions are made by the end of
confinement review committee they are the ones that determine the risk and listed
under slide who who makes up that committee
a really important point about half. Of the predatory offenders who are required to
register have been assigned
a level that means they've been in prison they've been released they've gone
through this end of confinement review committee and they've been assigned
a level which as I said links up to their level of supervision that they'll receive
that weaves
a whole other half who are not assigned risk level but they are required to
register these are individuals who did not go to
a prison or correctional facility. But may who may have been released through
probation they might have gone to jail or the workhouse but they have not gone to
a facility that does this and of confinement if you so on those half of the
individuals roughly there is no risk level and so they're not assigned to intensive
supervision it's unknown what's going on with them so there's these two groups of
vendors. For offenders that are.
The higher risk levels these are risks two and three they are required to be placed
on what's called intensive supervised release. And these come with.
Fairly stringent criteria check ins supervision things along those lines.
Details Beazer The These are the. Predatory offenders who have the
most contact with
a supervising authority because they're intensively supervised for
a time and he questions about. That I don't want to go at all there's a there's
a whole other lot of detail and I think those are the main points that are
important for you guys to know. I think Mr Dr Murray and I just these
face to face contacts is that something that's done at the offenders place of
residence and so that doesn't necessarily have an impact as to where the circuit
find housing or transit corrector so I don't want to speak out of turn is anyone on
our team want to. Hear.
Yeah well what was the question she wanted to know does in the sense of you provide
. Those corrections up to go to the person's house so that would have less impact
than where they might live because they don't have. Check in with the registry or
with that correct. So yes and I asked are will do
a home visit. So yeah it doesn't require the predatory offender to be
living. Separate. Maybe Sorry if I'm going to ask for more but.
It doesn't require the predatory offender to be living in close proximity to
a treatment facility or all of that the affair OK.
And you know what was going on OK. I want to share
a little bit of information from our survey of predatory offenders. You know as our
team was meeting we did have some conversation did we want to have. Any
representation or voice from predatory offenders themselves in our process it
seemed like
a good idea it didn't seem appropriate to invite somebody just sit in the group so
instead what we opted to do was
a snapshot survey. I want to read I want to be really clear this is not
a representative survey of predatory offenders rather we worked with.
Hennepin County Department of. Corrections and Rehabilitation and Minneapolis
Police Department to do
a convenience sample of individuals on their case loads and really the goal was to
get
a snapshot of. Their boys about why are they living why do they think they're living
where they live what's what's going on there. You can imagine we spent
a great deal of time as
a team really figuring out what the questions we would ask we wanted to make
certain that the work we were doing was not an ethical in any way or put predatory
offenders in
a bad position we didn't want them to be compelled to have to answer the survey we
wanted to be totally anonymous you know all of these things so we zeroed in on five
basic questions where do you currently live what are the reasons you live in your
current residence which kind of gets to the heart of what our team was trying to
uncover how did you hear about this place what part of the city or county do you
live in and is there somewhere you would rather live so we're trying to get
a sense of what's going on and so the two groups survey was collected by
the end of and County Department of Community Corrections and Rehabilitation and
they. Completed fifty five surveys essentially be officer offered
the survey to
a person when they were working with them in the survey the person could either say
yes or no and it was all anonymous and then survey B.
Is data collected by Minneapolis Police Department when pro-choice offenders
required to register came in for registration and they collected one hundred five
service and we kept the two groups the two so we didn't pull the data because it
really is two distinct populations and when you see the next slide you'll see
you'll see there's some pretty significant differences between the two groups. So
this one where you live. In the Hennepin County survey the.
Top one was someone else's home and then followed closely by Brant So what we can
see here I think the super important point is the number of individuals who
reported being homeless in the happen Tony sample is only two so it's relatively
low when you compare. But many of us police departments survey.
By far and away the highest response of where you live was homeless at seventy four
and this is a really important point and there's
a procedural reason for this that I want to explain because I think it's important
to put this information and context so homeless registrants people are required to
register after it does ignite
a city where they will register. In Hennepin County if you're going to select
a city where you might register chances are it was like Minneapolis because it has
homeless shelters and places where people can stay and services and support so.
That's information from. Police department why that homeless population is so high
in the individuals who register with them weekly. It's because that's where they
have to register I'm explaining that you guys see what I'm saying. Any
questions about this before and move on I also do one five minutes OK I want to
make one important point one of the things that the research literature is quite
clear about. Predatory offenders who are homeless do have a higher resort it is
a rate so that's something. To keep in mind. OK
so getting out why so be here's reasons for the residents in the head of an County
sample the primary reason was that they live where they live is because it's
affordable and then it's followed by can't find anywhere else to live again this is
pointing to similar trends that we see in the national literature around lack of
affordable housing lack of people who will rent to predatory.
Survey be with the many others Quest apartment data again remember most of these
individuals were homeless so they're. Most commonly selected answer was couldn't
find any put any place else to live so obviously they were unable to find
a place to live and that's where they were in the homeless category in this other
categories quite large we can talk about the other category if you want but since
there's only five minutes I should probably. Continue. So
just to summer there's a lot of words on
a slide I'm definitely not going to read it I want to just bullet point for you
guys what the key findings are. So yes we documented
that Hennepin County offenders predatory offenders required to register are overly
concentrated in the Minneapolis communities that were highlighted in the resolution
part of the reason we believe is this lack of affordable housing in other parts of
the county and also landlords and such that won't rent. Difficulty finding
housing another reason. Has to do with this if you can't find
a place to live and you're homeless you have to select
a city where you might register and it seems Minneapolis is the city that is being
selected because of services and sports. I think we have
provided
a partial answer to this idea about Hennepin County receiving portico extra predatory
offenders it seems our team feels the data is really suggesting that in terms of
a framework for thinking about this rather than focusing on keeping offenders out
we should be focusing on what to do with predatory offenders once they're in
Hennepin County so that is
a framework suggestion that will likely be in our final recommendations. In terms
of our questions around community impact. We were able to find significant.
National literature on the issue of impact on housing values we did not test that
in Minneapolis so that's
a finding from the national literature has not been verified in the Minneapolis
context but it does seem that predatory offenders in
a neighborhood does decrease housing values it definitely increases fear of crime
and then obviously whatever the recidivism rate associated with those vendors as
well but really the issue seems to boil down to housing housing. Seems to be
the critical component. So next steps for our team right now we're reviewing
the final report. We hope to complete the report in August and obviously make it
available and. It will be available on the new rock website and. The Department of
Civil Rights. So that's the end of our highlights probably have
a couple minutes for questions or comments if anybody has any Dr Martin I like to
say that you know when the final report is done I'm like to have you come back to
our present the final report in the special So you know have us discuss the
recommendations from that report. But council members any questions and.
I don't actually have any questions but I just wanted to emphasize how incredibly
valuable this kind of partnership is the city has policymakers in the city council
so all the efforts and all the work and all the energy that went into gathering
this information and bringing more people into do it it's. So much
consequence and Johnson. I thank you Mr Chair Ms Martin on the
definitions what would be and when you got away from the same sex offender and talk
about predatory Is there any other category of offender that would be predatory but
not a sex offender Yes there's
a small number of individuals who would be predatory offenders but not. Technically
sex offenders but are our team determined that we care about those individuals as
well as potentially posing
a risk to we want to include them in the mix so these are people well.
Mark would you like to it it's
a small number but we thought they were important to include. Yeah. Council member
charts the definition of predatory offender Originally it was sex offenders
but the legislature added
a group of offenders who are charged with kidnapping or false
imprisonment they're also include even if they have no sexual component of that
they see so that makes up less Mauler group of those included as predatory
offenders but out to comply with all registration requirements get risk levels of
society. But they are generally for the most part even if they go to prison are
generally risk level ones from sexual. And I see
class is to. Thank you. Council members any other
questions you have to mourn in your study said that there is concentrated areas
within him County but there are two communities specifically in Minneapolis that
have
a high concentration of one of those who communities I'm sorry can you say that again
where the what the two communities in Minneapolis have
a high overly concentrated. Area with sex offenders
Oh so this map shows the two communities with the outlines OK so north of me I was
in the Phillips It was OK. And this this map here you
can. You can really see the little circles kind of came up spots but you can.
Really see it sort of in the darker areas have pretty higher concentrations so you
can you can zero in there on the census tracks OK and. You know in
again in one of the slides you you had said that in certain areas are too few when
words runs into predatory offenders but in those concentrated areas I mean I mean
it's almost the inverse would you say I mean in terms of why there might be maybe
a few more landlords who runs the predatory offenders act right so we didn't do
a survey of landlords so I couldn't I couldn't say that but it seems they're living
there. Those are the places where they could find to live so that's how I would
respond OK And you know with the homeless category that you've explained what's the
percentage of the homeless folks relative to other sex offenders who have places to
live I don't believe we have that. The data in our report OK
I mean I would love to see it just so that we have
a good sense of you know what the numbers are really in terms of impact is I think
I mean with regards you know what we're asking we were asking in terms of
residential impacts you know certainly you know I mean you could be almost anywhere
in the city of Minneapolis but you know what saying generally speaking that would
mean that you might be living downtown were some are you know related to you know
were shelters located there you know I like to just know within the context of
what's you know if I for one or other areas just to kind of get
a good sense of it and you know my. Question is with regards to these
recommendations I mean. I feel like the Council is asking for solutions and what
that means is you know I think I mean one of the big questions is you know at at
the statue level do we have
a definition for concentration are we going to move to get the state to define what
concentration is so that if there is concentration and from what I see here I mean
there is
a concentration up in north Minneapolis in the fields area that we address that you
know and somehow we address that in some sort of substantial way and if that means
as you you know alluded to building more housing have folks live in those housing
so that they don't have these problems I mean that would be
a good thing but I mean is is that
a part of I guess the game play and define what concentration really means so I
think our recommendations will not provide you with a clear definition of what is
a concentration I think I think our goal is to provide
a framework an information to help homeless the makers make those decisions to zero
in on the questions. That you want to ask. So we're not going to I don't believe
our recommendations will be crafted it won't be so specific as to say we think you
should do X. Y. And Z.
. Specific Legislation or things of that nature I think what it's hopefully what
will do is it's helped to provide
a framework so that you know you're asking questions that are pertinent to the data
that that's available so for example you know if the problem was offenders from
other counties being placed in Hennepin County that would necessitate
a different fix right but we are information seems to pretty clearly suggest the
governing offenses originated in Hennepin County so then the policy solutions will
be within Hennepin County what's happening within an open County so there's
a different questions that we would want to ask.
Customer going in committee members one of the things that we're hoping to use this
research for is in conjunction with work that's happening with the burn Grant
steering committee and also representing this information to the Hennepin County
Criminal Justice CORNYN committee I believe in September because there are some
other efforts ongoing in the city to talk about public safety strategies and new
policy directions perhaps as
a result of the work that those groups are doing so where there might not be
specific recommendations coming out of the action research team there will likely
be specific recommendations coming out of those other groups but this information
can be used to help inform some of those things. Come to present Johnson
thank you Mr Terry or you're getting out. My thoughts as well. You know I
think you have confirmed what we knew was going on so I think you for that
but you know what's the plan going forward what's going to be. The plan that
says we can't concentrate you know sex offenders. You know ex offenders
in this is this is one facet of concentration of problematic populations in the
community that is. Harmful to the community.
So I think it's going to be really important to go beyond the research and and
develop some action steps that are owned how we deal with this one of the things
that I you know and we've gotten to the point in earth many of us where you know
people don't even ask for these meetings anymore because it's just you be asking
four times a month you know in a in
a neighborhood. And this population is very mobile also still you know every time
they move there's another you know notification that happens but it's go that was
the other thing it and I thank you so but about half of the population is without
notification and to so that I hadn't realized that before thank you for that. I
just think that. This we really have to think about the impact of this plus all of
the other challenges that these communities have but I also want to say that I I
feel like in my experience with. The sex offenders that have landed you know on
live in my ward I have
a sense that they are well supervised and that is but half of them
apparently not the other half you know which don't have any supervision but people
that are under supervision they really keep
a close eye on them and that is comforting to neighbors you know that they're they
can be visited they will be visited that the requirements of how they behave are
very stringent and. You know I think sometimes they're you wish that some of the
people who are gun offenders had this kind of supervision when they come back into
the community so. I just I think the program itself as far as the supervision goes
is well managed and there are frequent cases that it will have
a notification noticed come out and person is really offended before people can
even ask for
a meeting so it's you know it's moot so I think the program is well run it will sit
so I I'm going to close. This discussion just by saying Courtney is frustrated that
we keep on doing reports and we don't have solutions and you know from the
resolution I mean you know to me it seeks to addressing the problem and fixing the
problem and somehow you know going
a bit further than just studying the problem because you know
a soup I want to say I mean Council President Johnson put it best by just saying
that I mean this kind of just confirms what we knew already wall what we're going
to do about it and. I feel like in some ways I mean we have to do more than just.
Studies and reports and we have to go further and you know I say that just because
I represent an area where there is
a huge concentration and it's just unacceptable mean the folks who live up there or
do not like that situation I mean they they you know are frustrated all the time by
just these problems that persist and you know I think at some point we need to
address this and if it means happen at the state legislature I mean we need to get
our I G Our new department you know help us with this the city attorney's office
everybody else but I mean it's just frustrating that. You know I think the folks
are just begging for an answer and it seems like you know these records mean as
good as they are in terms of giving us information and they don't really give us
the answers that we want and so you know if it's
a policy decision then I mean us as the makers need address this issue thank you
sir all right. Council President Johnson did you have anything more to spend OK.
With than with that being said I will move that we receive in file this report.
Any discussion at all those in favor please say I'm. Any of those motions areas
Thank you. With that we do not have any more business before this committee and so
we will adjourn this meeting Thank you.